Getting started

Installation

Getting started with Serve is easy. Because Serve is built with Ruby, you
will need to have Ruby installed on your system. Mac OSX ships with Ruby. If
you are on Windows you can install Ruby with
this easy installation package.

Example projects

Check out the code that is being used for the Serve website. It’s a
good example of using Serve to build a static site. We use
the Serve export command to generate
the site, and a handy
rsync rake
task to deploy.

The Radiant CMS prototype project is a superb example of using Serve to
prototype a Rails application. It’s a fully functional, clickable
prototype without the backend. HTML prototypes are a great way to work out
design issues before spending a lot of time on the programming.

The Changelog’s
very own Adam Stacoviak has put together a Serve bootstrap project
with some of his favorite defaults. It comes packed with Haml, Sass, Compass,
his own Grid Coordinates CSS grid framework, jQuery and Modernizer. It also comes
ready to deploy on Heroku.